The stat damage bonus for the Greatsword is rubbish, fully Lightning upgraded does way more damage then a +15 normal weapon. Unless you're levelling up massively, I stay at 100-120 for PvP.

Ah, yeah I suppose that works then.

Exploring the Anor Londo area and kind of went somewhere I shouldn't and can't seem to get back. Totally marked out for the Tower Knight and Phalanx though. I love exploring in this game, it's just so much better than Skyrim.

The thing I love is that since death is meaningful, every new place is potentially terrifying. When you're carrying tens of thousands of souls between bonfires and have a couple active humanity, and have no idea where the next bonfire is, and suddenly come across a new enemy or area you've never been... It's a real sense of awe sometimes, especially with some of the visuals. With everything interconnected, they did a great job of giving you glimpses into the other parts of the world from some places.

Skyrim never gave me a sense of wonder at the world. It was big, and the graphics were gorgeous, but nothing really scared me. No sense of loss in most modern games just makes their worlds feel kind of... hollow.

Yeah I agree 100%. Skyrim was just empty for such a vast world, you could clear 30 dungeons and not find anything new except some random sword you're never going to use. You can also never go the wrong way since everything scales and it just feels so pointless.

One of my favourite moments so far in Dark Souls was somehow getting all the way to fog gate in the Tomb of Giants, being told I can't enter yet and then realising "Oh shit, how am I going to get back?". Ended up having to just run for it in pitch black with several giant skeleton things chasing me until I figured out where to go.

Homeward is a useful miracle to have for those kinds of occasions.

But yeah Dark Souls blew Skyrim out of the water for me. The atmosphere of menace and loneliness is perfect. Demon Souls was a little better for me in that regard but maybe thats because itwasnew.Skyrimcould have been a great game though if it had a combat system like the one in the Souls game.

I'd rested at the bonfire right before the fog gate and had no how to even get back to the catacombs from the first bonfire I found and rested at near Patches. I was so glad to see the bonfires I never even thought about how I'd get out of there.

Got my hands on a Divine Murakumo +9 and cleared out the Tomb Of Giants with ease, even beat the boss on my first try. Sweet revenge.

Finally beat Gwyn after so many attempts, only Capra Demon gave me more trouble. I absolutely suck on the timing for parries so it took me about ten minutes dodging and blocking his swings then getting a super weak hit in whenever he went for the grab. Felt so happy when he went down. Linked the fire and was all WTF until I read the flavour text on Gwyn's Soul, love how the lore is all there if you look for it. Might wait for the DLC to come out before I go again.

Just to let you know, now that you've beat it, you don't have to link the fire. You can leave the area without touching the bonfire in there and it will give you the other ending.

Started NG+ yesterday and helped two people beat Capra Demon, then soloed him on my second attempt. Felt so great that I didn't even mind getting invaded and blown up by a high end pyromancer moments later.

Got invaded 4 times in a row attempting to reach Ornstein & Smough, been walking around in human form since Blighttown and havent been invaded once until I reached the bonfire in the Palace. By the time I eventually got to the boss room I summoned Solaire and another Sunlight guy who pretty much destroyed them both in a minute with the sunlight spear miracle. Incredible.

I left off my third playthrough at the Wyvrenn so it took me about... honestly I dunno. Anywhere between 5-9 hours to get the Lordvessel to even access the DLC. So I finally started it the other night. The Stone Guardians are a fucking bitch for me because of how I've leveled my character. Right now I've gone as far as I can go and either need to beat and I'll need help because I sure as shit can't do it on my own. Almost beat one of them when I helped someone earlier but I died from being stupid/impatient.

Four Kings get such a huge buff in NG+, after four pathetic attempts I barely managed to kill the first one and then realised there were already two more out before getting one shotted by the AoE. Ugh.

My hoodie from the guy on Reddit just got here. :love:

Got mine Thursday, might post a picture of me wearing it eventually

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It's a little baggy in places but they will probably shrink after a first wash. The green could be a little darker but other than that it's pretty nice.

Just gained all the covenant rewards and started the DLC, Uchi+15 and Magic Crystal Weapon takes down the stone guardians pretty easily. Unfortunately I keep dying by falling off cliffs. This may take a while.

I read some walkthroughs and restarted as a bandit with the master key.. Doing alot better this time..

Beat the DLC. Didn't kill Lord Ciran, just told her she couldn't have the soul and I figured she would still be there when I came back but she took off. Helped a bunch with Manus and Kalameet too. Overall, spent some good time in there. Definitely worth the money.

Someone explain kindle to me..

Also, once your estus flask count moves up why doesn't a bonfire refill them??

Kindling increases the number of Estus flasks you get at a bonfire by 5, up to a maximum of 20 (once you've beaten Pinwheel). If you haven't kindled a bonfire it only refills up to 5 flasks. You have to kindle each one individually. Choose wisely.

So right now now, every time you visit a bonfire your estus flasks get refilled to 5. When you kindle a bonfire they can get refilled to 10. You need to be human to do so and use another humanity to kindle the bonfire.

I'm guessing you haven't kindled a bonfire yet so the reason why your estus flask count is moving up is because another player on the server you're playing on kindled a bonfire. When someone kindles a bonfire, everyone who recently visited that bonfire gets an extra estus flask.

Later on in the game (much later), you'll get the ability to kindle a bonfire 3 times so you'll have 20 estus flasks.

My Estus Flask count was up to 10 yet when I got to Undead Burg, the fire there wouldn't fill it up back up.. I need to kindle once again to make that happen??

Yup

I'm not on Live..

Thanks

Firelink Shrine is already kindled when you arrive in Lordran so its a good bonfire to use as a hub early on once you open up some shortcuts.

Did you ever beat them? They're fucking ridiculous. Closest I've got in multiple attempts is getting them halfway, but by that time I've gone from 20 Estus flasks to 7 and there's 3 of them on top of me. I'm not sure it's possible.

I've went the way of trying to tank them with Havel's Armour and Havel's Greatshield then trying different weapons. Closest I've got was with a +10 Fire Iaito, but the stamina penalties kills me. On the other hand, if I don't have that tank set-up, they stun-lock and obliterate me pretty quickly.

Yeah, I ended up having to grind my Vitality up to 30, I don't know why but I have a bad habit of never putting any points into it on my first run. With enough HP I could survive the AoE and managed to beat them by equipping Havel's set with the Grass Crest Shield and Cloranthy Ring in the free slot. Had to tank with Crystal Magic Weapon and a two handed Uchi+15, no point even trying to evade anything. Green Blossom helped too. It was the toughest fight by far, including the DLC bosses.

Ok so I played the game for 30 minutes yesterday. I started as a Thief. I couldn't figure out how to get out of the dungeon. It said the door was locked by some device or something. Anyways, I'm gonna print some online guides tonight and play some more when I get home. Two simple questions.

Will my offline have transfer to online? I guess it don't matter because I didnt get too far.


Thief? Good choice or bad? What class did you start as and what do you recommend?

You don't have to worry about "transfering". How the online portion of the game works is strange and worth looking at a guide for.

Thief I guess is fine. Pyromancer is pretty good too.

I suggest looking at a weapon guide and figuring out how to level up weapons for beginner. That way you know how to level up your character.

I only chose thief because I thought I could unlock any door, but within the first 10 minutes that turned out not to be the case.

There is no separation between online and offline. It also doesn'r really matter too much what you start as, more what you decide to focus on. It gets rapidly more difficult to level up so you have to decide on a play style (evasive, projectile magic or strength say) and pour your souls into it accordingly.

I think I want to shoot arrows so I'm leaning towards hunter.

Arrows aren't a good tactic really in Dark Souls. You need a high dexterity and there's parts of the game later one where it is impossible to aim. I was thinking more along the lines of projectile magic.

Anyone else getting Dark Souls 3?

Pre-ordered ages ago. I wanted to be finished with Fallout 4 before I started playing it but that doesn't look like it will happen.

It sounds like more of the same from the reviews, which I'm happy with. I'm hoping they've finally worked out the multi-player system, as it has never been as good in the sequels as it was in Demon Souls, largely too laggy for duelling most of the time probably because it matches you to a load of creeps from Japan.